10 Amazing Stories Behind Famous Rock Album Music Covers

10. A Giant Headache (Houses Of The Holy - Led Zeppelin)

In 1973, after their previous four albums were either eponymous or untitled, Led Zeppelin finally got their act together and pulled an absolutely stonking album name out of the bag.

Houses of the Holy opened to tepid critical reception, but it has since been included on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list thanks to tracks like The Song Remains the Same and No Quarter.

For the cover, Led Zep wanted to recreate a scene from Arthur C. Clarke's 1953 novel Childhood's End, and so headed to the Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland.

One of the child models, who would be photographed climbing up the causeway nude, would grow up to be TV presenter and author Stefan Gates. The more you know.

To get the photo he wanted, Aubrey Powell of the famous art collective Hipgnosis had to start work very early in the morning, but his progress was halted by inclement weather. What was supposed to be a simple shoot ended up taking ten days to complete.

Furthermore, the image was originally supposed to be in black and white, but the photos were so bad that they ended up using a tinted one instead!